Dr. Jacob Chengwei Feng is an affiliate assistant professor of theology and leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and the University of California, Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Theological Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the Leader of the Theology Interest Group at the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS), a Fellow at Oxford Interfaith Forum, and an Academic Researcher at the Asia Research Center (ARC). His publications include monographs such as Science, Religion(s), and Spirit(s) in China (Brill, 2025), and Spirits and Chinese Religiosity: Retelling the History of Chinese Christianity from a Pentecost Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), and nearly three dozen articles and book chapters in prestigious journals such as the Scottish Journal of Theology, International Bulletin of Mission Research, Zygon, Dialog, Theology and Science, etc.
My most important rebuttal is that Yeo’s review has misunderstood my main goal. Rather than offering a Pentecostal reading of Chinese Christianity, I employ what I call ‘Pentecost historiography.
![A photo of the top of the Stele in Xi’an, China. It is inscribed with an Assyrian cross and Chinese characters. Readers [of Jingjiao] will not only be equipped with the fascinating history of Jingjiao, which helps overcome the anti-Christian narrative that Christianity was brought into China by European and American colonial imperialists. Christians and missionaries in various global cultural contexts will also benefit from this book by learning from the Church of the East missionaries’ creative strategies of inculturation.](https://media.chinasource.org/uploads/2024/04/BL240419-header-ChinaSource-Jingjiao-Xian-stele-Church-of-the-East-in-China-300x150.jpg)
Readers [of Jingjiao] will not only be equipped with the fascinating history of Jingjiao, which helps overcome the anti-Christian narrative that Christianity was brought into China by European and American colonial imperialists. Christians and missionaries in various global cultural contexts will also benefit from this book by learning from the Church of the East missionaries’ creative strategies of inculturation.
A review of A Reader in Chinese Theology edited by Chloë Starr, the best reader on Chinese theology available in English.